Profiles of Women Murdered by the Boston Strangler

My e-book is a close examination of the lives of women who were murdered by the Boston Strangler in 1962-63. I researched the women's ethnic backgrounds, their families, immigration history, employment, living places, and death circumstances. Different than other true crime books, I focused on the people who were victims instead of the criminal. Each of the women was noteworthy in her own right. More

The Boston Strangler strangulation murders of 1962-1963 took place within a small radius, encompassing Boston's Back Bay, Salem, Lynn, Belmont, and Dorchester, MA. A number of the victims of the killer immigrated with their husbands and families from eastern Europe. Through research into U.S. Census and U.S. City Directories I have brought together many facts about the women's lives that have not been published before, to my knowledge. I hope that the text will be a tool for researchers into genealogy who are busy working on their own family histories. I have covered the death circumstances from newspaper coverage but the focus of my work is chronicling the women's histories before their demises. The e-book will be of interest to true crime enthusiasts, certainly. The text is illustrated with photos which point out the proximity of the strangulations as they occurred, one by one. I have also added photos from cemeteries.

I am a soon to be retired Duke Medical Center library researcher, who enjoys writing. I have been writing on Wikipedia for years and have begun to write ebooks. My pastimes include selling books on EBay, genealogical research, baseball (Pittsburgh Pirates), collecting antique furniture and coins, and spending time with Kingsley, my cocker spaniel.